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Animal Adventures in North Carolina

By: Jennifer Bean Bowen Grandparents take note: The ultimate animal adventure is waiting right here in North Carolina. You need not venture beyond our borders to experience lions, tigers, wildebeests, woolly worms, wolfdogs, and more. Animal Adventures in North Carolina directs readers to 70 locations in the state where they can view, interact, and be educated about wildlife. It’s no [...]

2012-01-11T21:30:28-05:00January 11th, 2012|Recreation & Leisure|

The Greatest Generation… This Noble Band —- Wilfrid Urban, 6th Marine Regiment

Tom Brokaw recounts in his superb book, The Greatest Generation, a story his mother told him of the day Gordon Larsen came into the post office where she worked. Larsen was usually a genial and popular member of their community, but that day he had stopped in to complain about the rowdiness of the teenagers on Halloween the night before. [...]

2019-01-02T19:36:18-05:00January 5th, 2012|Arts & Culture|

The Greatest Generation… This Noble Band —- First Lieutenant John Koehne, Pilot

Tom Brokaw recounts in his superb book, The Greatest Generation, a story his mother told him of the day Gordon Larsen came into the post office where she worked. Larsen was usually a genial and popular member of their community, but that day he had stopped in to complain about the rowdiness of the teenagers on Halloween the night before. [...]

2019-01-02T19:36:34-05:00January 5th, 2012|Arts & Culture|

The Greatest Generation… This Noble Band —- Mary Catherine Hampton, Nurse, 44th Evacuation Hospital

Tom Brokaw recounts in his superb book, The Greatest Generation, a story his mother told him of the day Gordon Larsen came into the post office where she worked. Larsen was usually a genial and popular member of their community, but that day he had stopped in to complain about the rowdiness of the teenagers on Halloween the night before. [...]

2019-01-02T19:36:54-05:00January 5th, 2012|Arts & Culture|

WWII Veteran Publishes Memories of Triad Veterans

At the age of 89, Russell Reynolds had a dream. He had recently participated in the Triangle Flight of Honor to the nation’s capital, and he wanted to share the stories he had heard from other WW11 veterans during that amazing journey. After months of corresponding with other veterans across the state, Reynolds has published We Remember: Stories by North [...]

2019-01-03T18:48:38-05:00January 4th, 2012|Arts & Culture|

Duke University’s OLLI Program

Lifelong learning began at Duke University in 1977 as part of the Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement, a joint venture of Duke Continuing Education and the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. It became a grantee of the Bernard Osher Foundation in 2004 with the introduction of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), one of 117 [...]

2012-01-03T00:30:45-05:00January 3rd, 2012|Recreation & Leisure|

NCSU’s Encore Program

The aphorism, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” does not apply to North Carolina State University’s Encore Program for Lifelong Enrichment. This continuing education program, designed for adults 50 and older, is a unit of McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education. Founded in 1991, the NCSU Encore program currently has 1,000 members who join annually. It offers [...]

2012-01-03T00:26:34-05:00January 3rd, 2012|Recreation & Leisure|

Triangle Flight Honors Veterans

By: Sunny Johnson Lewis, Flight Coordinator Veteran Jerry M. Smith of Durham received the US Flag in an honorary presentation on September 14, his 97th birthday. Veterans Gloria Arnold Paul and Willie Edward Stone, escorted by Flight Directors Ryan Combs and Sunny Johnson, at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In the past 19 months, through [...]

2019-01-02T19:37:13-05:00December 14th, 2011|Arts & Culture|

The Greatest Generation… This Noble Band —- Derwood Copeland, Lt. Col. USAF

Tom Brokaw recounts in his superb book, The Greatest Generation, a story his mother told him of the day Gordon Larsen came into the post office where she worked. Larsen was usually a genial and popular member of their community, but that day he had stopped in to complain about the rowdiness of the teenagers on Halloween the night before. [...]

2019-01-02T19:37:31-05:00December 14th, 2011|Arts & Culture|

The Greatest Generation… This Noble Band —- Jack Ullman, B-29 Navigator

Tom Brokaw recounts in his superb book, The Greatest Generation, a story his mother told him of the day Gordon Larsen came into the post office where she worked. Larsen was usually a genial and popular member of their community, but that day he had stopped in to complain about the rowdiness of the teenagers on Halloween the night before. [...]

2019-01-02T19:37:48-05:00December 14th, 2011|Arts & Culture|
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